# Attn Rhode Islanders - Coffee Milk help **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** coffee\ **Created:** [August 7, 2002, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attn-rhode-islanders-coffee-milk-help/122704 "2002-08-07T00:43:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![BobT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e8cbc/32.png) [@BobT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobT)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2002, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attn-rhode-islanders-coffee-milk-help/122704/1 "2002-08-07T00:43:33Z")
I bought a bottle of this at the Providence Airport. So, if I am to make this coffee milk concoction, what kind of milk tastes best? Whole? Lowfat? Nonfat? Or is it so vile that I will be wondering how Rhode Island was allowed into the United States? 🙂 As an aside, on my trip I recently, I discovered that my cell phone service, which was supposed to be good in all 50 states didn’t work anywhere in the Ocean State. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2002, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attn-rhode-islanders-coffee-milk-help/122704/2 "2002-08-07T00:53:20Z")
A : There is no Providence airport. It’s in Warwick. B : Whole milk. C : Just think of it as chocolate milk. But tastes like coffee. D : If you’re not _from_ Rhode Island, you probably won’t get it. ---
**Author:** ![BobT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e8cbc/32.png) [@BobT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobT)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2002, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attn-rhode-islanders-coffee-milk-help/122704/3 "2002-08-07T00:55:17Z")
As I was saying, I was at TF Green Airport in Warwick, RI … ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2002, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attn-rhode-islanders-coffee-milk-help/122704/4 "2002-08-07T01:05:20Z")
I had a coffee cabinet in Narragansett last weekend, and it was goooooood. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2002, 7:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attn-rhode-islanders-coffee-milk-help/122704/5 "2002-08-07T07:30:36Z")
Oh how I miss that “coffee, regular” (cawfee, regyuhluh) with milk and cream. I too have a 6-year-old bottle of Autocrat syrup in my fridge, which I presume will expire at some point. On a related note, I can’t find stuffed cherry peppers in Oregon, and have resorted to Tony’s Colonial online: [http://www.tonyscolonial.com/tonysonline.php3?SID=518036637241334331378384&cid=8&cidn=Antipasti](http://www.tonyscolonial.com/tonysonline.php3?SID=518036637241334331378384&cid=8&cidn=Antipasti) ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2002, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attn-rhode-islanders-coffee-milk-help/122704/6 "2002-08-07T07:33:16Z")
You can find recipes using coffee syrup at [http://www.autocrat.com/pages/receipes.asp](http://www.autocrat.com/pages/receipes.asp) They refer to a “milk shake,” in my experience a term that makes Rhode Islanders stare at you blankly. ---
**Author:** ![lauramarlane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a5b964/32.png) [@lauramarlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lauramarlane)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2002, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attn-rhode-islanders-coffee-milk-help/122704/7 "2002-08-07T13:39:17Z")
We won’t stare at you blankly–just identify you as the outsider you obviously are 🙂 Mmmmm, coffee cabinets. That’d go great with a grinda! ---
**Author:** ![Caricci](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/85f322/32.png) [@Caricci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caricci)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2002, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attn-rhode-islanders-coffee-milk-help/122704/8 "2002-08-07T14:08:16Z")
I’ve been here six years and counting and I haven’t had coffee milk. I did give birth to a native, however, and will start him on it soon. Does it have caffeine? ---
**Author:** ![Olentzero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/90ced4/32.png) [@Olentzero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Olentzero)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2002, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attn-rhode-islanders-coffee-milk-help/122704/9 "2002-08-07T15:02:00Z")
Autocrat is the epitome of all that is truly wrong with the state of Rhode Island. And I say this with the full knowledge that my beloved **Valkyrie** , born in Warwick, reads these threads on a regular basis. She and her sister visited Providence last year and picked up a bottle each of the stuff at the State House gift shop. It’s only about a third empty now, and has been quietly occupying a space in the fridge ever since. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2002, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attn-rhode-islanders-coffee-milk-help/122704/10 "2002-08-07T16:16:18Z")
IMHO, **Swarovski** is all that is truly wrong with the state of Rhode Island. See their Mary’s Moo Moos collection and try to disagree! ---
**Author:** ![Already\_in\_Use](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a9adbd/32.png) [@Already\_in\_Use](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Already_in_Use)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2002, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attn-rhode-islanders-coffee-milk-help/122704/11 "2002-08-10T07:40:47Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Olentzero \* > **Autocrat is the epitome of all that is truly wrong with the state of Rhode Island.** No way! The stuff is great! I used to have it on ice cream with chocolate syrup. That was so good… Anyway, the worst thing about Rhode Island is probably the Department of Transportation. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2002, 8:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attn-rhode-islanders-coffee-milk-help/122704/12 "2002-08-10T08:23:03Z")
Okay, I have a real live Rhode Islander visiting me, so I asked her “What’s a milkshake?” She promptly replied “Milk mixed with Autocrat syrup and shaken.” Further, this delightful creature brought me two jars of stuffed cherry peppers, one sweet and one hot, so all my RI culinary needs are currently fulfilled. ---
**Author:** ![vix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a88e4f/32.png) [@vix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vix)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2002, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attn-rhode-islanders-coffee-milk-help/122704/13 "2002-08-10T14:03:43Z")
Tony’s Colonial has an online store? :eek: ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2002, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attn-rhode-islanders-coffee-milk-help/122704/14 "2002-08-10T23:36:55Z")
They’ve let it out of RI, you know. I bought some of it by accident one night last summer, thinking it was chocolate milk. It wasn’t until I took a sip of it and thought “Gack! Did someone put out a cigarette in my chocolate milk?” that I realized that I’d grabbed the wrong bottle in my haste to leave the store. \ ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2002, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attn-rhode-islanders-coffee-milk-help/122704/15 "2002-08-10T23:41:35Z")
Autocrat?? What’s Autocrat?? You’re only a true Rhode Islander if you recognize ECLIPSE Coffee Syrup. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2002, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attn-rhode-islanders-coffee-milk-help/122704/16 "2002-08-10T23:51:07Z")
Doesn’t Eclipse make a vanilla syrup too? That is also vile.